Necktie storage device

ABSTRACT

The invention comprises a storage cabinet for men&#39;&#39;s four-in-hand neckties and includes a combined supporting and compacting cabinet for elongated articles of merchandise such as four-inhand ties and having a rack which is extensible horizontally through and beyond the front of said cabinet for display and selection therefrom after which said rack may be swung down and into compacting vertical position within said cabinet, said rack being temporarily retained or latched in both said horizontally extended and vertically suspended positions.

United States Patent Kanarr Apr. 2, 1974 4] NECKTIE STORAGE DEVICE 2,562,982 8/1951 Cie ri 21 1 105 x [76] Inventor: George w- Kanarr, 265 Charles St. 3,606,018 9/1971 Rulna 211/13 Luzeme 18709 Primary ExaminerJames C. Mitchell [22] Filed: Aug. 29, 1972 Attorney, Agent, or FirmEverett G. Clements [21] Appl. No.: 284,550

[57] ABSTRACT 52 11.5. c1 312/136 312/297 211/13 The invention Comprises a ge cabinet formens 211/105 four-in-hand neckties and includes a combined sup- 51 1111. C1. A47t 3/06 Pmting and mPacting Cabinet emgated articles [58] Field of Search 312/128 136 248 297 of merchandise such as four-in-hand ties and having a 312/321 323. 211/60 rack which is extensible horizontally through and be- 2 yond the front of said cabinet for display and selection therefrom after which said rack may be swung down [56] References Cited and into compacting vertical position within said cabinet, said rack being temporarily retained or latched in UNTED STATES PATENTS both said horizontally extended and vertically sus- 3,612,284 10/1971 Stoltz 211/].3 pended positions 1,917,721 7/1933 Kamil 312/297 X 2,583,647 1/1952 Haynes 312/248 UX 4 Claims, 8 Drawing Figures PATENTEDAFR 2l974 SHEET 1 OF 3 NECKTIE STORAGE DEVICE This invention relates to improvements in storage cabinets and is more particularly intended for adjustably supporting long articles of merchandise, such as mens four-in-hand ties in a compact, sorted, fully enclosed condition, as well as in a fully extended exposed position outside of the cabinet to afford ready access to the sorted ties permitting unimpeded coice of the tie desired.

At the present time no device of this type is known to be commercially available.

Accordingly, it is the principal object of the present invention to provide a necktie supporting cabinet that is sufficiently versatile in nature to permit complete dust-free storage thereof as well as to permit the support members for the ties to be swung upwardly and out of the cabinet into a fully extended substantially horizotal position to reveal the neckties to an individual so that a choice of the tie desired can be conveniently made.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a latching arrangement for the support members of the ties in a substantially fully extended position which may be effortlessly released so that the ties and their support members may be returned to the cabinet.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a self-contained necktie support assembly which is capable of locking the parallel bars in a fully extended position and also in a fully retracted position.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a support assembly for neckties which includes a plurality of parallel bars, each of which may support a wide variety of ties and by reason of the movement of these bars relative to each other, serve to apply pressure on the article carried on an adjacent bar to prevent slippage of the ties transversely thereof.

Yet another object of the invention is to apply a heavy flocking to the necktie supporting bars so that when the ties are confined within the cabinet the flocking not only serves as a cushion to absorb pressure from the support bars on an adjacent tie and prevent marring of the surface thereof, but also serves to hold the ties against slippage when the bars are fully extended.

These and other objects will become more apparent from a reading of the following specification taken in conjunction with the drawing, in which:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the necktie cabinet with a portion of the door cut away to show the inside thereof;

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view through the side wall of the cabinet of one embodiment of the invention showing the arms in extended elevation;

FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view of this embodiment of the tie rack in a storage position;

FIG. 4 is a front elevational view on line 44 of FIG.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary view of the tie rack in extended position showing the latch means of the one embodiment;

FIG. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary view of one embodiment of the tie rack in a unlatched vertically suspended condition;

FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of a second embodiment of the invention showing the tie support assembly in an extended position substantially horizontal in the cabinet through the front opening, and

FIG. 8 is a further enlarged view of the second embodiment of the support assembly in a retracted vertically suspended position and completely housed.

Turning now to the drawings, there is disclosed in FIG. I a perspective view ofa cabinet 10 with a portion of the roller-type door 12 cut away to reveal the merchandise contained therein which in this instance is a selection of mens four-in-hand neckties indicated generally at 14.

The illustration of FIG. 2 is a side elevational view looking into the cabinet toward one side wall and clearly showing the latching support means 16 and 30, one each of which is carried on the oppositely disposed side walls and thereby adapted to control the movement of the extendable links 18 and 20, respectively, as will be explained later herein. From their fully retracted position, which is well shown in FIGS. 1, 3 and 8, said links are movable to their fully extended position, best shown in FIGS. 2, 5 and 7, at which time the links 18,20 associated with the support pins 22 and 24, respectively, FIGS. 5 and 6, are capable of rigidly supporting a large variety of four-in-hand neckties.

Reference is again made at this time to FIGS. 5 and 6, which shows in enlarged detail one of the latching support means 16 provided with means defining slots 15 and 17, respectively. The means defining the slot '15 is generally 7-shaped, with the long leg portion curved or bowed as shown in this view. The pin 22 carried medially of the link 18 is adapted to move through this bowed path of the slot from the lower extremity (see FIG. 6) at which time the bracket arm or rack R is shown retracted and swung downwardly in a vertical position from its extended horizontal position into its compact, locked position and the ties are completely compacted and confined within the cabinet, upwardly through the curved path until the pin can ride down the forwardly sloping leg at the top of the 7-shaped slot 15. It will be apparent that during this time, the pin 24 carried at the end of link 18 merely moves forwardly and downwardly in the short slot 17, all of which is clear from the views of FIGS. 5 and 6.

FIG. 3 discloses a partial view through the side wall of the cabinet 10 showing there in greater detail the manner of compressing the bars 26-26, FIG. 5, against each other so as to lock the ties l4 thereon against inadvertent sidewise movement, and at which time the plural offstanding catches 2828 (FIG. 4) are received in the curvilinear support elements 30-30 that are disposed in aligned relation to one another on each of the side walls so that uniform pressure will be exerted from the flocking 6 applied to the bars to the ties.

With further reference to FIG. 6 it will be noted that the means defining the slot 17 is designed to slope upwardly toward the rear wall of the cabinet so that after the appropriate tie has been selected, the individual merely grasps the foremost bar 26 and begins to push rearwardly. At this time the pins 22 and 24 move to their rearmost position in the slots and by then swinging the entire rack downwardly with pin 22 following the slot 15, the position of the rack which is shown best in FIG. 3 is attained and the catches 2828 are seated in their supports 3030 with the pin 24 in its rearmost position in slot17 and the ties under compression as explained earlier herein.

A heavy flocking is applied to each of the bars, this treatment of the bars being important for several reasons, i.e., it prevents marring of the surface of the ties when they are in storage as well as prevents their inadverant slippage therefrom when the supporting arms are swung from a retracted to an extended position or vice versa.

Reference is now made at this time to the second embodiment of this invention and more particularly to the disclosure of FIG. 7. In this illustration, as described earlier in connection with the first embodiment of the invention, the necktie cabinet is shown with the view of the support assembly taken in the same direction as in FIG. 2 and disclosing a triangular plate 40 that is secured to one side wall of the cabinet. Also, as in the first embodiment of the invention, it will be understood that a pair of triangular plates are necessary to a proper functioning of the necktie support assembly.

The triangular plates 40-40 (one shown) are each provided with inwardly projecting top flanges 42 and a perforation 44 which provides a pivotal support means for the necktie bracket assembly generally indicated at 46.

In the first embodiment of the invention, the rearmost link 18 of each bracket arm is provided medially thereof with a pivot pin 22 that is slidably disposed in its slot 15. As distinguished from that construction the elongated arm having a rounded end 54 of the second embodiment is pivotally associated at 48 with a shorter link 50, the free end 52 of which is pivotally secured in the perforation 44 of the plate 40. The upper end of the arm 20' is provided with a rounded nose portion 54 which is constantly in slidable engagement relative to the flange 42 with the opposite free end of the link provided with an intumed stop flange member 56 that engages one lower side edge portion of another parallel link member 58 which is pivotally attached at 60 to line 20'.

As clearly shown in FIG. 7, when the tie rack is in the extended horizontal position, the links 50 and 58 are disposed in parallel relation and one end of the arm 20' is in abutting relation with the lower portion of the plate flange 42, while the stop flange S6 at the other end of the link is arranged to support the link 58, this latter link being provided medially thereof with one of the plurality of tie support bars 26 necessary to complete utilization of this assembly.

Also well shown in FIG. 7 is an end view of the head of the bolt 72 that is threaded into one of the tie bars, best shown in FIGS. 7 and 8. Normally, such an assembly would permit the bars 26 to rotate and as a result a tie as shown could roll with its bar until it finally falls off. To prevent such a happening a perforated clip member 74 is positioned over the headed screw 72 on the face of the link and an end tab portion of the clip is then bent up against a flat side of the screw head as shown.

The box-like cabinet 10 may be of only slightly greater depth than the distance between the pivotal points of each connected link of the brackets R which differs greatly from the maximum compressed length of the brackets, see FIGS. 2 and 3 for comparison.

It will also be noted that the merchandise carried on the bars 26 of the brackets may be quickly displayed in both the compacted condition of FIG. 1 or in freely suspended condition of FIG. 2 by merely raising the roller type door 12 from the normally closed position of the cabinet shown in FIG. 1 or in the freely spaced suspended condition of FIG. 2 where the rack is shown raised and projecting through the open front door 12. In this extended position of the rack R the door member slides up and around the bite in the track member 5 and then down parallel to the back wall of the cabinet.

It will be apparent to those in the merchandizing fields that the invention shown herein is capable of more uses than merely the storage and display of ties and that such uses are intended and contemplated by the appended claims.

What is claimed is:

l. A storage and display cabinet for elongated articles of merchandise such as four-in-hand ties, etc., said cabinet having an opening in one side thereof, a rack for said ties pivotally mounted at one end to innersides of said cabinet adjacent said opening, said rack comprising series of bars and links pivotally connected for relative movement both when swung down and through said opening into compact, vertical suspended position within said cabinet and when swung upwardly through said opening into an extended horizontal position outside said cabinet.

2. The cabinet of claim 1 having walls extending inwardly thereof on opposite sides of said opening, a pivotal mounting for said rack carried by said walls whereby said rack may be swung downwardly therefrom into compact vertical storage position of said ties within said cabinet and swung upwardly into extended horizontal display position outwardly of said cabinet through said opening.

3. The cabinet of claim l having an opening in one side thereof, said rack swingable from a vertical position on a pivotal mounting inside said cabinet through said opening to a horizontal position outside of said cabinet, said bars and said links being pivotally connected and said bars being movable by said links from a relatively close relationship when said rack is swung down into compact vertical position within said cabinet to relatively widely spaced relationship when said rack is swung upwardly and outwardly through the opening in said cabinet.

4. The cabinet defined in claim 1 and latch means at said one end of said rack, operative by said relative movement of said links to temporarily retain said rack in said last named position. 

1. A storage and display cabinet for elongated articles of merchandise such as four-in-hand ties, etc., said cabinet having an opening in one side thereof, a rack for said ties pivotally mounted at one end to innersides of saId cabinet adjacent said opening, said rack comprising series of bars and links pivotally connected for relative movement both when swung down and through said opening into compact, vertical suspended position within said cabinet and when swung upwardly through said opening into an extended horizontal position outside said cabinet.
 2. The cabinet of claim 1 having walls extending inwardly thereof on opposite sides of said opening, a pivotal mounting for said rack carried by said walls whereby said rack may be swung downwardly therefrom into compact vertical storage position of said ties within said cabinet and swung upwardly into extended horizontal display position outwardly of said cabinet through said opening.
 3. The cabinet of claim 1 having an opening in one side thereof, said rack swingable from a vertical position on a pivotal mounting inside said cabinet through said opening to a horizontal position outside of said cabinet, said bars and said links being pivotally connected and said bars being movable by said links from a relatively close relationship when said rack is swung down into compact vertical position within said cabinet to relatively widely spaced relationship when said rack is swung upwardly and outwardly through the opening in said cabinet.
 4. The cabinet defined in claim 1 and latch means at said one end of said rack, operative by said relative movement of said links to temporarily retain said rack in said last named position. 